Anyway, didn't the Greeks invent pizza? You know, like how the Chinese invented pasta.
Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Frankenbuddha - Feb 01, 2009 8:05:06 am PST #8729 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Frankenbuddha - Feb 01, 2009 8:06:14 am PST #8730 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
GARY NUMAN IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA IN MARCH 2009!
He's definitely worth seeing live, in case you wanted to know.
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Scrappy - Feb 01, 2009 9:00:06 am PST #8731 of 9843
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I defintely think barbeque and burgers. Also clam chowder, cornbread, tex-mex and chili.
Hil R. - Feb 01, 2009 12:54:46 pm PST #8732 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That regional pizza styles link was interesting.
When I was in Italy, I did mostly just have pizza and pasta, but that was probably largely because we were there in the winter and there weren't very many vegetables available.
In the history of American warfare as told through food [link] , the US is hamburgers and fries, chicken nuggets, and a fried chicken sandwich. The UK is fish and chips. And all Arab countries are different kinds of kabobs. I was thinking that they ought to get something better than that -- you end up with a few scenes of kabobs fighting against other kabobs -- but realized that I really don't know enough about the food of the different countries to be able to think of a food that was distinctly Iraqi or Jordanian or whatever. (And the bagel with cream cheese and lox that they use for Israel is definitely American.)
billytea - Feb 01, 2009 1:22:09 pm PST #8733 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(And the bagel with cream cheese and lox that they use for Israel is definitely American.)
I had a bagel with cream cheese and lox (well, almost) for Chinese New Year, after being gifted with a ridiculous quantity of smoked salmon.
Fay - Feb 01, 2009 2:50:34 pm PST #8734 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
(Pssst, Jimi - hamburgers are from Hamburg, mate, if you want to go down this route!)
Hil R. - Feb 01, 2009 3:03:37 pm PST #8735 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, hamburgers served on bread or a roll are American. Hamburg patty is originally German.
Beverly - Feb 01, 2009 4:45:40 pm PST #8736 of 9843
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Mac & cheese seems quintessentially American to me, regardless of its origins. Also, baked ham, green beans and new potatoes cooked together with a little bit of pork fat, biscuits, grits, country ham and redeye gravy. Grits. Hominy. Pumpkin pie, turkey with stuffing. Ooh--"salads" made with Jello, Cool Whip and those little marshmallows. Waldorf salad. Pattie sausage, pancakes with syrup.
I know a lot of that is breakfast and/or regional, but it's American, I think.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2009 5:28:00 pm PST #8737 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most of those foods weren't available in the restaurants I went to in the 80s in London.
Laga - Feb 02, 2009 9:21:19 am PST #8738 of 9843
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
all Arab countries are different kinds of kabobs.
Wasn't there a falafel sandwich in there somewhere?